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Free Nurse Assistant Training Paid by Vanderbilt Health - Trauma Stepdown

Free Training - Earn While You Learn

Vanderbilt Health (VUMC) is offering an exciting opportunity to individuals with no healthcare experience to obtain free nurse assistant training through NATS, one of our training partners. At Vanderbilt we call this position a Care Partner. In this program you will be paid while you train for five weeks. Upon completion of the NATS training, you will be provided with additional clinical orientation and department-specific training on one of our inpatient units by working closely with the nurse educator for the unit. Once you have completed all training you will receive a promotion and a pay increase.

This program offers paid training (no tuition or fees to participate in the program). Care Partner Trainees are considered full-time and eligible for benefits (including health, dental, and vision) and additional perks that come with being a Vanderbilt employee, including help with commuter costs.

What are the qualifications/requirements to be considered?
* Open to VUMC Staff and Non-VUMC Staff
* No previous healthcare experience required
* Non-licensed position; no specialized healthcare degree required
* 18 years or older
* High school graduate or GED
* Will need to pass a background check
* COVID vaccinated (VUMC can provide at no charge)

NATS Care Partner Scholarship Program:

• 7 week training program
  • Week 1: on-site at VUMC
  • Weeks 2-6: NATS training from 9am-2pm (NATS address is 1161 Murfreesboro Pike #217, Nashville, TN 37217), and additional training may be required on-site at VUMC
  • Week 7: on-site at VUMC
• Mandatory attendance is required everyday during the training period.
• Upon successful completion of NATS program, you would be eligible to sit for the CNA State Board exam (to obtain CNA license)

Interview process and acceptance into this training program:
* One of our talent recruitment specialists will contact you to schedule an interview.
* Interviews are done either in-person or virtually (via phone or computer).

What does a care partner do?
Care Partners assist with the personal care of patients (adult and/or pediatrics), including:
- bathing, feeding, toileting, and changing beds
- aiding in daily activities (walking, sitting, etc)
- taking vital signs (temperature, blood pressure,
heart rate, breathing)
- documenting computerized patient information

Care Partners and Patient Care Techs are not responsible for:
- giving medications
- patient assessment
- managing an independent patient assignment

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High School Diploma or GED (or equivalent experience)

Licensure, Certification, and/or Registration (LCR):

• Physical Requirements/Strengths needed & Physical Demands:
  
  • Heavy Work category requiring exertion of 50 to 100 lbs. of force occasionally and/or up to 20 to 50 lbs. of force frequently and/or up to 10 to 20 lbs. of force continually to move objects.
  
  
  Movement
  
  • Occasional: Lifting over 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects from one level to another, includes upward pulling over 35 lbs, with help of coworkers or assistive device
  • Occasional: Carrying under 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.
  • Occasional: Bending/Stooping: Trunk bending downward and forward by bending spine at waist requiring full use of lower extremities and back muscles
  • Occasional: Climbing: Ascending or descending stairs/ramps using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
  • Occasional: Kneeling:Bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees.
  • Occasional: Crouching/Squatting: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.
  • Occasional: Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.
  • Occasional: Fingering: Picking, pinching, gripping, working primarily with fingers requiring fine manipulation.
  • Frequent: Sitting: Remaining in seated position
  • Frequent: Push/Pull: Exerting force to move objects away from or toward.
  • Frequent: Lifting under 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects under 35 lbs from one level to another
  • Frequent: Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching or maneuvering self, patient and equipment simultaneously while working in large and small spaces
  • Frequent: Reaching below shoulders: Extending arms in any direction below shoulders.
  • Frequent: Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand or hands.
  • Frequent: Bimanual Dexterity: Requiring the use of both hands.
  • Frequent: Standing: Remaining on one's feet without moving.
  • Continuous: Walking: Moving about on foot.
  
  
  Sensory
  
  • Frequent: Communication: Expressing or exchanging written/verbal/electronic information.
  • Continuous: Auditory: Perceiving the variances of sounds, tones and pitches and able to focus on single source of auditory information
  • Continuous: Vision: Clarity of near vision at 20 inches or less and far vision at 20 feet or more with depth perception, peripheral vision, color vision.
  • Continuous: Smell: Ability to detect and identify odors.
  • Continuous: Feeling: Ability to perceive size, shape, temperature, texture by touch with fingertips.
  
  
  Environmental Conditions
  
  • Occasional: Chemicals and Gasses: Medications, cleaning chemicals, oxygen, other medical gases used in work area.
  • Frequent: Pathogens: Risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens and other contagious illnesses.